Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on Anarchism for PS 240 Intro to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.

1. Anarchism Dr. Christopher S. Rice

3. “ I must tell you first of all what anarchism is not . It is not bombs, disorder, or chaos. It is not robbery or murder. It is not a war of each against all. It is not a return to barbarism or to the wild state of man. Anarchism is the very opposite of all that .” – Alexander Berkman, American anarchist, 1929

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6. Anarchism The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

8. Enragés

11. Order is the genus: Government is the species

12. anarchos

13. Anarchism is not as systematic an ideology as liberalism or Marxism

14. Liberty Equality Solidarity

15. Liberalism Anarchism Marxism

16. freedom and equality are complementary , not contradictory

17. Progress & History

18. Linear Dialectic Dualistic

19. Linear Dialectic Dualistic

20. Linear Dialectic Dualistic

21. HOPE, not certainty

22. A little of column A, A little of column B

23. Anarchist Conception of Freedom

24. Agent

25. The individual is the basic unit of society…

26. … but full humanity can only be achieved by membership in a community/ society.

27. Individual-in-Community

28. Human Nature

29. 2 basic impulses

30. “ Kill the social sense in man – and you get a savage orangutan; kill egoism in him and he will become a tame monkey.” - Alexander Herzen

31. Self-interested impulse to subdue others for individual purposes

32. An impulse to help others (Mutual Aid)

33. Human Malleability

34. HOPE

35. Goal

36. The highest level of individual freedom possible for the individual, the fulfillment of each individual’s full human potential, while at the same time developing human society to the highest degree possible.

37. Anarchism “seeks the complete development of individuality combined with the highest development of voluntary association in all respects, in all possible degrees for all imaginable ends.” - Kropotkin

38. The Problem of Conventional Institutions

44. Obstacle(s)

45. The State (!)

46. “ Of all the things which interfere with the free activity of the individual, which reduce liberty and compel us to act in ways different from those we would choose, the most powerful and pervasive is the state.” (Jennings)

47. The essential function of the state is to maintain the existing inequalities in society…

48. Private Property

49. Godwin: each article of property ought to belong to the individual whose possession of it would yield the greatest good for the greatest number; thus, property should be distributed according to claims of need.

50. “ Property is Theft” (Proudhon)

51. “ The only demand that property recognizes is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.” - Emma Goldman

52. Democracy (?)

53. Decision-making by Consensus

54. The Anarchist Conception of Freedom

60. Rebellion vs. Revolution

62. DISOBEY